bath

1. 1

   A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.

2. 2

   A building or area where bathing occurs.

   • Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence.
3. 3

   Clipping of bathroom.abbreviationalt-ofclipping

   • The master bath has two sinks.
4. 4

   The act of bathing; an instance of this; the taking of a bath.

5. 5

   Specifically, bathing by immersing the body in water, rather than through other means, or an instance of this.

   • Do you prefer baths or showers?
6. 6

   An act of immersing the body in a specified substance, especially for hygiene, pleasure, or wellness, or a facility for this: e.g. mud bath, steam bath.

   • Radio-active baths are said to act favourably in a sexual direction. So too with arsenical springs, cold water treatment, and hydrotherapy.
7. 7

   The body of liquid one bathes in.

8. 8

   A substance or preparation in which something is immersed.broadly

   • a bath of heated sand, ashes, steam, or hot air

syn. bain

1. 1

   To wash a person or animal in a bath.Commonwealthtransitive

   • For grooming at home, obviously the choice is yours whether you wish to bath the dog in your own bath or sink, or if you want to buy one specifically for the purpose.
   • If you find bathing stressfull during the first six weeks, only bath your baby once or twice a week.
2. 2

   To bathe (oneself); to have a bath.Commonwealthinformalintransitive

   • A man's home may be handy to the mine, in which case he would not need to lose the bath, but if he lived any distance away he would bath at the mine.
   • In a flight of fancy, Millot even wanted to create public bath houses alongside the Seine, so young children could bath in the river’s healthful waters.

1. 1

   A former Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 23 L or 6 gallons).historical

   • Ye shall have just balances, and a just ephah, and a just bath. The ephah and the bath shall be of one measure, that the bath may contain the tenth part of an homer, and the ephah the tenth part of an homer: the measure thereof shall be aft